Howdy, Headliners! Today’s birthday boy is Henry Saint Clair Fredericks, better known to music fans as Taj Mahal. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1536 – The annulment of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage.
- 1673 – Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
- 1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
- 1875 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
- 1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
- 1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
- 1967 – Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
- 1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
- 1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
- 1974 – Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army‘s headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
- 1983 – The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world’s largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to the Appalachian Observer’s Freedom of Information Act request.
- 1990 – The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
- 2004 – The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.
Without further delay, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
GOP STANDS FOR “GOT OUR PERPS!”
TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
FREE THE WEED!!!
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
IN LGBT NEWS:
ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:
CNN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
BOB BECKEL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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